Quotes about Admiration

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election. Criticism precedes admiration and - like it or not - goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done. I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players. I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration. Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, 'All hail!' He came in with his big forearms, pointing and telling everybody where he wanted the cameras with his big cigar ablazing, and you just go, 'This is Stallone!' with admiration, because none of us would be here without this guy. That's the thing, he changed movies forever As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers. We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. Season your admiration for a while. I learned from admiration and osmosis. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood. We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures. Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love. There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status. What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story. I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know, maybe 100 Batman stories a year, and the character turns 70 years old in May. It's incredible: for 70 years, on a weekly basis, every Wednesday, there is some Batman story coming out, if not a bunch of Batman stories coming out. I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit. When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity. I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.�� He stroked her hair soothingly. 'You will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day.�� He swallowed. 'Don't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night. (Winter Makepeace) Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw. A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

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